#publicdomaingamejam — Public Fediverse posts

Techdirt: Game Jam Winner Spotlight: Lilac Song. “We’re past the halfway point in our series of spotlight posts looking at the winners of our eighth annual public domain game jam, Gaming Like It’s 1930! We’ve already covered the Best Adaptation, Best Deep Cut, and Best Visuals winners, and this week we’re looking at the winner of Best Remix: Lilac Song by Autumn Chen.”

Techdirt: Announcing The Winners Of The 8th Annual Public Domain Game Jam. “It’s finally time! Once again it took us a little while to get through all the entries this year, but we’ve now selected the winners in the latest installment of our public domain game jam, Gaming Like It’s 1930! As usual, we’ve got winners in six categories. Plus, at the end, we’ve got some honorable mentions […]

Techdirt: Let’s Go! The Public Domain Game Jam Starts Today. “This year, that means we enter a new decade, as works originally published in 1930 finally exit copyright protection and become free to remix, repurpose, and build on. Gaming Like It’s 1930! begins today and runs until the end of the month, and we’re calling on designers of all stripes to help us show why a robust and growing […]

Techdirt: Get Ready To Enter A New Decade With The Next Public Domain Game Jam: Gaming Like It’s 1930!. “The new year is approaching fast, and you know what that means: new material is entering the public domain in the US, and we’ll be celebrating it with the eighth installment of our public domain game jam. What’s more, this is an extra special year because the ever-growing public domain […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/12/12/get-ready-to-enter-a-new-decade-with-the-next-public-domain-game-jam-gaming-like-its-1930-techdirt/

Techdirt: Game Jam Winner Spotlight: This Is Not A Game About A Pipe. “We’ve now arrived at the end of our series of posts about the winners of this year’s public domain game jam, Gaming Like It’s 1929! We’ve already covered the Best Remix, Best Deep Cut, Best Visuals, Best Adaptation, the honorable mentions, and the Best Digital Game. Today, we wrap things up with a look at the Best […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/05/29/game-jam-winner-spotlight-this-is-not-a-game-about-a-pipe-techdirt/

Techdirt: Game Jam Winner Spotlight: Cocoanut Hotel. “1929 was the year the Marx Brothers made their film debut in The Cocoanuts, a movie where they ostensibly run a resort hotel but mostly just engage in their regular antics. Cocoanut Hotel adapts this career turning point for the famed comedians in both content and spirit, turning it into (what else?) a full-fledged hotel management sim. […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/05/19/game-jam-winner-spotlight-cocoanut-hotel-techdirt/

Techdirt: Game Jam Winner Spotlight: Honorable Mentions. “This is a brief detour in our series of posts about the winners of this year’s public domain game jam, Gaming Like It’s 1929! We’ve already covered the Best Remix, Best Deep Cut, and Best Visuals, and Best Adaptation, but before we move on to the last two categories (Best Analog Game and Best Digital Game), let’s take a moment […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/05/14/game-jam-winner-spotlight-honorable-mentions-techdirt/

Techdirt: Game Jam Winner Spotlight: Calder’s Circus. “Regular followers of the jam are surely familiar with David Harris, our one regular entrant who has won a category every single year. And I promise the judges aren’t just playing favorites: this year’s entry is once again suffused with the sort of thoughtful creativity that always makes David’s games stand out. Calder’s Circus […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/05/04/game-jam-winner-spotlight-calders-circus-techdirt/

Techdirt: Game Jam Winner Spotlight: A Pocketful Of Peril!. “It’s time for the second in our series of posts about the winners of this year’s public domain game jam, Gaming Like It’s 1929! We’ve already covered Best Remix winner Accoutrements, and now it’s time for a closer look at the winner of the Best Deep Cut category: A Pocketful of Peril! by Perrin Ellis.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/04/21/game-jam-winner-spotlight-a-pocketful-of-peril-techdirt/

Techdirt: Game Jam Winner Spotlight: Accoutrements. “Today, we’re kicking off our series of posts about the winners of this year’s public domain game jam, Gaming Like It’s 1929! We’ll be going through all six winners in no particular order, starting today with the winner in the Best Remix category: Accoutrements by Nora Katz.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/04/14/game-jam-winner-spotlight-accoutrements-techdirt/

Techdirt: And We’re Off! The Public Domain Game Jam Starts Today. “If you’ve been itching to get started on your entry, now’s the time — you’ve got until the end of the month to make an analog or digital game based on works from 1929 that entered the public domain today. … We’ll bring you more updates throughout the month, and then in February we’ll be choosing winners in six […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/01/02/techdirt-and-were-off-the-public-domain-game-jam-starts-today/